Moralizing the Environment

by Lowe, Philip; Seymore, Susanne; Ward, Neil

• ISBN13: 9781857288391
• ISBN10: 1857288394
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Ucl Pr Ltd

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Moralizing the environment: understanding farm pollution	1	(17)
Introduction	1	(8)
Methodology: following actors, following pollution	9	(3)
Methods	12	(3)
Outline of the book	15	(3)
2 Changing dairy farming and the pollution problem	18	(21)
Processes of change on dairy farms	18	(14)
Effluents in the environment	32	(4)
Conclusions	36	(3)
3 Farm pollution as a non-issue	39	(21)
Tackling and emergent problem	40	(2)
Agricultural exceptionalism	42	(11)
Farm pollution regulation in the 1970s and early 1980s	53	(4)
Conclusions	57	(3)
4 The politicization of farm pollution	60	(28)
Introduction	60	(2)
The politics of water privatization	62	(3)
Farm pollution incidents	65	(3)
Defining the problem	68	(3)
Making sense of the data	71	(4)
Local investigations: the Torridge Report	75	(2)
Challenging agricultural exceptionalism	77	(2)
Devising a solution	79	(3)
A new regulatory framework	82	(3)
Conclusions	85	(3)
5 The Pollution Inspectors' accounts of farm pollution	88	(31)
Introduction	88	(2)
The regional organization of farm pollution control	90	(4)
A day in the life of Bob: the field culture of a rural Pollution Inspector	94	(8)
Perceptions of pollution and farming	102	(2)
The regulation of farm pollution	104	(7)
The threat of prosecution	111	(6)
Conclusions	117	(2)
6 The dairy farmers' accounts of farm pollution	119	(26)
Introduction	119	(1)
Life on a dairy farm	120	(5)
The environment and the ethos of production	125	(2)
Farmers and farm pollution	127	(7)
Pollution control and the logic of farm improvement	134	(2)
Farmers and the NRA	136	(7)
Conclusions	143	(2)
7 Pollution control and social networks	145	(46)
Introduction	145	(1)
ADAS, farmers and farm pollution: the technical discourse	146	(8)
Local environmentalists and farm pollution: the moral discourse	154	(8)
The NRA, Pollution Inspectors and farm pollution: negotiating the moral discourse	162	(11)
The farmers' networks	173	(10)
Conclusions: farm pollution and patterns of enrolment	183	(8)
8 Conclusions: constructing moral orders	191	(18)
Introduction	191	(1)
Nature, rurality and morality	192	(3)
The moralization of risk and regulatory science	195	(2)
Networks, enrolment and identity creation	197	(3)
Agriculture's moral economy	200	(2)
The farmer and the field-level bureaucrat	202	(5)
Afterword	207	(2)
Bibliography	209	(10)
Index	219